Showing signs of an early spring
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Portage and Warren Township fire territories to merge
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Estimated economic impact of restarting Palisades
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South Bend woman traveling over 1000 miles for solar eclipse
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Rain around the Easter holiday weekend
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Child attacked by off duty Pulaski County K-9
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Niles schools threatened for fourth time in two weeks
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Michigan Lt. Governor Gilchrist talks nuclear power with ABC57
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Model Elementary School students raise record amount for American...
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Hello Gorgeous is holding an event to celebrate women with cancer
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Week wraps up mostly dry, but rainy Easter weekend in store
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City of South Bend shares plans of ’Madison Lifestyle District’...
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Michigan State Trooper opens fire on suspect in Benton Harbor
All of the rain and mild weather Michiana has experienced this past month has a positive side. Plants are already sprouting and trees are growing buds, right here in Michiana! There are some of these early signs of spring across our area, but further south, trees are already growing leaves.
In a map by the National Phenology Network, the yellow shading shows us where leaves have already started developing from buds. There are already leaves in far southern Indiana. This is very early to have leaves that far north. Louisville for example is seeing leaves twenty days early.
This means that we will likely see spring showing its colors early in Michiana as well. Normall leaves sprout during the first week of April, but we could see them as early as mid-late March. Flowering trees and plants start to bloom in early May, but we could see our first flowers as early as mid to late April.